the game called "Luksong Tinik"

Luksong Tinik
how do you say that in english?
Thorn Jump?
Jumping above a thorn?
I dont know...=P

I got this picture from one of my friends in facebook.
i just love this picture.
I used to play this when i was a kid.
This is one of my favorite among other games we used to play.
This used to be my childhood game.
Way back 1980's every afternoon when i saw some of my friends
group together and start playing i tried to sneak out from our house and tiptoed outside to play. I do not know why my parents don't allow us to play outside. I always have 'palo sa puwit' (spank on my butt) when i'm done playing outside.
Until now i wanted to ask -
(Bakit kaya noon ayaw nila kaming paglaruin sa labas..???)

I wonder why kids nowadays don't play this kind of games anymore.
Maybe some kids who lives in rural areas.
I wonder if cellphone, gadgets, ipod, psp, gameboy etc can qualify as a childhood joy? I think physical activities like this is more fun. You get to know your neighbors well, play with them, quarel with them, interact with them.

Anyway, this can be played with a group of 2 with 3 or more members, they will first toast a coin who will play first, then the group who won the toast will play first while the others will sit down and form a bridge using both their arms and feet. The first group who jump will try to win by jumping the highest fingernail bridge and if some members cannot jump that high or touch the leg part or any part of the fingers will then be disqualified but other member who jump without touching the said bridge can still play and replace the other members who didnt make it. If all of them touches the fingertips then it is the chance of other group to play. The score is if all the group can jump without touching then they win the game.

Ah, so simple but it brings joy to a child's heart. No matter how painful bruises we got from playing it is still best to become a child even just once in a lifetime.

One thing - this is a memory to behold.
I guess i can teach my daughter to play this thing.
Will she appreciate it?

duh.
=)

health is wealth

okey, we all know about this fact.
i know i've been digging up informations on how to start up a life doing my own business so soon, i made an effort to read some tips online, books, ebooks, videos and magazines and trying to absorb as much as i can to be emotionally and mentally prepared for this turning point in my life - but i wasn't paying attention to my PHYSICAL condition this past few days.

wednesday morning when my alarm woke me up, i feel giddy and cannot stand up to take a shower for work. i really am like a vegy. i even cannot send a text message to my friend to say that i cannot make it to work because i was droppy, giddy and vegy, but before i finally doze off i manage to tell them how i am feeling. i go back to sleep for more than 3 hours more. when afternoon came i went to see a doctor. the doctor says i have an infected and inflammed ear drum that start up from a flu that causes my deafness, giddyness and head ache, to top it all fever and cold. actually, i know it was there. but i am so surprise why i did not pay attention to my physical health. i am really surprise i don't mind at all until i feel the whole world go round like a circus. this is actually not good. everyday i am dreaming on how to get rich, how to put up a business on my own, what, where, when and how on starting up my way to 'getting rich', how to invest etc etc..but the thing is the most important aspect of all which is 'health investment' was taken for granted by my ownself. i think i am being so cruel to my own body. i should listen when my ear say something like 'ear drum eruption' that can cause me big problem if not being cure. i should listen to what my body is saying, what is investing on other things if i am not in good health?

silly me.
i should take care of myself and get away of doctor's fee.

now i need 2 days rest from work.
and this medicines..